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ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At least 9 fires are burning this morning in California, 5 of which are burning in southern California as gusty offshore winds continue.Some of the highest wind gusts overnight have been up to 72 mph in San Bernardino County and up to 60 mph in Los Angeles county.Numerous Red Flag Warnings continue in the West including Nevada, Arizona and California with high wind warnings for the […]

Rawf8/iStock(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) -- A man has been arrested for murder after a memory card labeled "Homicide at midtown Marriott" that contained videos and images of a violent attack was discovered on an Alaska street, authorities said.A woman called Anchorage police on Sept. 30 to say she found an SD card lying on the ground, and that it contained disturbing videos from early September that showed a woman being beaten, raped […]

Oliver Knight/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- An apocalyptic scene is emerging in Southern California after fast-moving wildfires broke out overnight, leaving two dead, destroying homes and forcing residents to flee.The infernos are closing some schools and even crippling Los Angeles freeways, leaving frantic drivers in bumper-to-bumper traffic.The Saddleridge fire has engulfed over 7,500 acres in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Los Angeles, and was 13% contained as of Friday afternoon.It […]

iStock(ATHENS, Ohio) -- Ohio University has suspended 20 student organizations, including all of its fraternities, over hazing allegations that are roiling the campus.The public university received reports of hazing last week against nine fraternities, prompting the school to suspend all 15 of its fraternities, spokesman Carly Leatherwood told ABC News on Friday."It escalated so quickly and there were so many" people coming forward with allegations, Leatherwood said.The six fraternities that […]

wingedwolf/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Despite President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves to crack down on illegal immigration and his threats to deport “millions,” ABC News has learned total removals over the past year mark only a slight increase from 2018 and remain lower than peak annual totals under President Barack Obama. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed about 260,000 unauthorized immigrants in the 2019 budget year, according to two ICE officials.Police departments of “sanctuary […]

wsfurlan/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A 7-year-old New York boy is in critical but stable condition after a homeless man picked him up and slammed him headfirst into the ground while he and his brother were waiting for pizza to be delivered outside their grandfather’s house.The incident happened just before 5 p.m. on Monday afternoon in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City.“This emotionally deranged individual came into my […]

Maricopa County Superior Court(MESA, Ariz.) -- An Arizona school bus driver was arrested for allegedly abusing two elementary school students in a disturbing incident that was captured on the bus's surveillance camera.Police said Jamie Tellez, a 50-year-old bus driver for the public school system in Mesa, Arizona, became enraged last week and deliberately slammed on the breaks while in the middle of the street, causing an 11-year-old to "fly forward […]